Pre-Graduate Advising: Graduate Horizons is a four-day workshop assisting Native American college students, college graduates, and master’s students in preparing for competitive graduate and professional school admissions (master’s, doctoral, professional degrees). GH partners with 45 universities where admission officers, professors, and deans mentor and advise potential applicants on the admission process professional/career development, and the various fields of study, research, and graduate programs available. Participants of the program complete graduate ready personal statements/statements of purpose, resume/cv’s, and applications; receive test-taking strategies from the Princeton Review Foundation on the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT; understand the financial aid process for graduate school and learn about graduate scholarships/fellowships; attend seminars on the admission process (letters of recommendations, academic/transcript/testing critique, how to determine the right match in a degree program; role of direct/relevant work experience, etc.). Cohorts consist of: Arts & Humanities, Business, Management & Entrepreneurship; Education; Law; Health Sciences; Public/Tribal Policy; STEM; Social Sciences. Approximately 30% of College Horizons alumni participate in the graduate program as part of our pipeline initiatives.
The mission of College Horizons is to encourage and facilitate the higher education of Native American young people. The goals of CH are to: 1) increase the higher education rate of Native American and Native Hawaiian high school and college students by providing pre-college (College Horizons) and pre-graduate (Graduate Horizons) admission/financial aid counseling programs to Native American students and, 2) to increase their college completion rate by providing a college success/retention services (Scholars Program).
The mission of the Bernalillo Public School Student Success Project (BPS-SSP) is to create a culturally responsive college and career readiness program for 6th-12th grade students that is rooted and aligned with Pueblo core values, community, culture and career needs so that Pueblo graduates will be prepared to enter the local work force or higher education. Additional goals include: 1) providing a college/career/culture curriculum for counselors, students, parents, and Tribal Education Departments; 2) increasing parent engagement, 3) providing individualized advising through a 100:1 student/counselor ratio, and 4) providing summer internships for school students to gain workforce skills and explore jobs/careers.
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